Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trick dancing. It seems a shame that she should run the risk of spoiling the memories of "Pom-Pom" and "Lady Billy". It seems a shame that any actress should play to the bright footlights of musical comedy in the decline of her popularity. The audience is quick to forget and quick to show that it has forgotten...
Hodge blunders through his part, in a manner so highly normal and idiotic that one comes to forget sooner or later that he is acting at all. Truth to tell, it is as if you and I were up there on the stage, trying desperately to cope with a lot of things which we do not understand. And so, sooner or later, Mr. Hodge obtains our sympathy, and our interest as well. We must acknowledge his powers of persuasion whether they be those of an actor or a demi...
...would be able to sit down between novels and write and Outline of History. How many American college graduates carry into their life of later years any enjoyment of the things they studied in college? Perhaps one reason for the precipitancy with which our college men are prone to forget the literature and art they studied and for the most part enjoyed in their undergraduate years, is the erratic system of studying which is too often favored in college. In England the student gradually absorbs his understanding and love of his subjects. In America lectures are listened to daily...
Here there are two quite opposite schools of thought. One group of business leaders is unable to forget that always in the history of U.S. business whatever went up had to come down again sooner or later, and that such periods of general prosperity as the present have always brought on a reaction in industry and trade. This conservative school is thus intent on finding out weak spots in U. S. business, and many of its members have thought the chief two are the construction industry and the stock market...
...Lampy says. How well the CRIMSON recollects it! Who, indeed, of those then living could forget the year which has been branded ever since in Harvard annals as the "Plague Year" of the century? For then it was that Mistress Advocate, a young and, up till then, respected member of the neighborhood, so shocked the world by bringing forth a lusty, roly-poly boy who was to prove himself the plague of wit and humor. Who was his father no one knew, though there were many guesses. But in commemoration of the joke his mother played upon society, the child...